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The Growth Of A Brilliant Mind

Paul Theroux THE TONGUE SET FREE by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel Deutsch, £12.95, pp.268 A s Elias Canetti demonstrated in working on his masterpiece Crowds......

Smart Alec In Moscow

Hugh Joseph CHILDREN OF THE ARBAT by Anatoli Rybakov translated by Harold Shukman Hutchinson, £12.95, pp.685 I t is hard for anyone who has grown up in England, certainly in the......